Download PDF by Scott Bukatman: The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the

By Scott Bukatman

ISBN-10: 0520265718

ISBN-13: 9780520265714

ISBN-10: 0520265726

ISBN-13: 9780520265721

In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic chance, and the lifetime of pictures in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman starts with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to discover how and why the rising media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious strength characterised through hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and mind's eye. The e-book broadens to think about comparable "animated" behaviors in possible disparate media—films approximately Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My reasonable girl and the tale of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and modern comedian superheroes—drawing all of them jointly because the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.

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